180G Western Digital Problems

[Amd Man]

Ok here is the problem, My files keep becoming corrupt or un-recognizable.

At first it ran ok and as the drive filled up, thats when my files started to become corrupt.

I know about the 137G limitation so I used the ATA card that came with the drive and all went well, I installed it and the drive was recognized as a 180G drive, so i patitioned it into two 80G drives and then formatted them. Everything was good for about a month and then all of a sudden I started losing data.

I read on WD site that the kind of problems that you would have if not set up right, basically data loss, the drive would start to rewrite over existing data corruptin it.

My question is does this sound the case, or what, and if so what should I do?

I was thinkin it may have to do with heat, but I have an 80Seagate runnin fine in this puter.

this puter is a Shuttle SN41G2 Box that i put together, it has an 80G Seagate and a 180G WD.

[Kill-Switch]

Is your rig overclocked? If done incorrectly or too much you can sometimes find your data being corrupted as it is written.

[Amd Man]

Nope, Bone stock XP1800+ with 1G ram

[sptw]

Hi Amd man,

There's an issue with silicon image chipset and nforce2 mobo that make files keep becoming corrupt , but i checked your mobo and couldn't see this chip there, then we can forget about it.I would try :
First:
- check cables, connections and jumpers.
Second:
- PSU, is it enough?
Third:
- Memory cards.One faulty cell on memory card can cause missing files or corrupted files.

and for last, maybe you type it in a wrong way, but you said 180 GB, and two partitions with 80 GB each one, where are the other 20 GB?and which file system?NTFS or FAT32?